Today, Ryan Adams took a moment to insult the Strokes on Twitter. “Abert [sic] Hammond is a more horrible songwriter than his dad. If that's possible,” he wrote.
“It rains in Sthtrn CA & washes out the dirt.” He then added: “Julian Casablancas: who got you strung out on lasagna tho?” The tweets have since been deleted—find screenshots below. While it’s unclear what prompted him to go after the band today, his comments come after the publication of Lizzy Goodman’s new book Meet Me in the Bathroom, which outlines the relationship between Adams and the Strokes. The book includes quotes from Hammond saying that Adams was a “bad influence” who supplied him with heroin. Adams denied those claims in the book: “I would never ever have given him a bag of heroin.”

Adams alluded to the Strokes’ accusations in Goodman’s book, tweeting, “I should've forced them to get addicted to writing better songs. Too bad @thekillers did it for them.” In response to someone who called him out for attacking Casablancas, he replied, “I sold more t shirts last night than people who actually made it thru a single Voidz song, bro. What's he gonna do? Sit on me?” Later, he retweeted someone who said that Lou Reed and Metallica’s album Lulu is better than the Voidz.

When reached about Adams’ tweets, a representative for the Strokes offered Pitchfork no comment.